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Britain's Daily Star has apologized to Rockstar Games after one of the most absurd controversies in living memory, and has had particular resonance in British industry. The paper was invented, in a report published last week, Rockstar Games to release a GTA inspired by a recent British crime, entitled Grand Theft Auto: Rothbury.

The game, the paper said, was to follow in the footsteps of the murderer, Raoul Moat, and the British newspaper published a story on the assumption that the game was in progress, publishing a false cover of the title and talking to people involved in the crime for see what they thought. And, of course, charging lack of scruples of Rockstar Games.

Quoted from The Daily Star:

ON 21 July we published an article claiming that the video games company Rockstar Games were planning to release a version of their popular Grand Theft Auto video games series titled “Grand Theft Auto Rothbury”.

We also published what we claimed would be the cover of this game, solicited comments from a family member impacted by the recent tragedy and criticised Rockstar Games for their alleged plans.

We made no attempt to check the accuracy of the story before publication and did not contact Rockstar Games prior to publishing the story. We also did not question why a best selling and critically acclaimed fictional games series would choose to base one of their most popular games on this horrifying real crime event.

It is now accepted that there were never any plans by Rockstar Games to publish such a game and that the story was false. We apologise for publishing the story using a mock-up of the game cover, our own comments on the matter and soliciting critical comments from a grieving family member.

We unreservedly apologise to Rockstar Games and we have undertaken not to repeat the claims again. We have also agreed to pay them a substantial amount in damages which they are donating to charity.

Credit to Rockstar for donating the damages money to charity. Nice to see that not everybody is a money hungry greedy bastard these days. I salute you, Rockstar. Now give me a job

As for the Daily Star, it's a paper aimed primarily at the retarded portion of the nation who can't handle anything intellectual, preferring to read streams of bullshit and pointless celebrity gossip to further rot their brains and enhance their chances of gaining their fifteen minutes of fame by appearing on Jeremy Kyle.

I was gonna post this link on my Facebook page but it's being a whore and won't let me post links. Fucking stupid modern technology.